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Alliance of Ethics & Art (AEA) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation with a mission to educate the public about the cause of racism and the answer, based on Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy founded by the great educator and critic Eli Siegel, who taught that "Ethics is the art of enjoying justice."Breaking news: We're going to South Carolina in February! Details here. From the director . . .
This has been a big year for the Alliance of Ethics & Art, and we enthusiastically thank everyone who participated in and encouraged our events and oral history project. Thank you for enabling thousands of people to meet the knowledge that can end racism: Aesthetic Realism.
We are grateful for a grant from Puffin Foundation to explore how African Americans and Jews worked together for Civil Rights. At the left we see the beloved Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi
having her blood pressure taken by Dr. Leo Orris, who came from NYC to serve the cause
of justice.
Did you know that . . .
In 1965, Mary Parkman Peabody, age 72, mother of then Governor of Massachusetts, Endicott Peabody, went south as a civil rights activist to join the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in St. Augustine, Florida. She was arrested with her companions, an interracial
group who attempted to eat in a segregated restaurant. Mrs. Peabody spent two nights in jail, and the protest was front-page news (AP photo, right). She stands for the power of ethics, and what Eli Siegel explained in a 1952 lecture, Motherhood in Motion: "A mother, instead of thinking only of her child...is compelled to think of other mothers' children."
Mrs. Peabody's photo appears in the website of the Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement, www.crmvet.org, and is used here with their knowledge.
In the news . . .
Very little is known about the place of Black Mountain College in civil rights history. However, that is changing because of Dave Sear, internationally known folksinger and activist, who attended Black Mountain College from 1950-51. Read the complete article here.
This story, which originally appeared in March 2011 has been reprinted with additional photographs. Read about it here.
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Projects
"The Force of Ethics in Civil Rights"
Oral History/Documentary
many interviews were videotaped for the oral history project "The Force of Ethics in Civil Rights" in North Carolina, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Florida, New Jersey, Georgia, and New York. In North Carolina persons interviewed included James E. Mills, the first African American mayor of Scotland Neck (above); also, Dr. John Mitchell Johnson, owner of Hamlin Drug Company in Raleigh-- the oldest black-owned pharmacy in the state (est. 1907) and perhaps the 
country-- and Eugenia Ijames, who, in 1968 was the only black child in the first grade of Wakelon Elementary School in Zebulon, thus integrating the school.
"The People of Clarendon County"— A Play by Ossie Davis & the Answer to Racism!
In our travels, we presented this outstanding event, free to the public, at
Tulane University Law School in New Orleans,
North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh (January and June), and the
Elmont Memorial Library in Elmont, NY.
We also dipped into our archives for a fresh look at the presentation in April 2008 at the East Elmhurst Community Library, Queens, NY. The Alliance of Ethics and Art is proud of this letter by Library Manager Johnnie O. Dent.
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